Summer has arrived!
I must admit… as much as I loved winter and waxed poetic every single time I spotted a snowflake dropping from the sky in my backyard, I’m completely in love with the idea of summer now. Though it’s “technically” not summer for a few more weeks, Memorial Day weekend always seems like the best time to launch the warm weather, the barbecues, and the vacation-planning. It’s also a good time to dig out the flip flops and shorts. Lucky me > it’s in the 80’s in my neck-of-the-woods this weekend, so I can happily state that summer has indeed arrived on time. Fresh berries are beginning to make an appearance at the market (on sale!), and they are tasting pretty good too. It’s the perfect time to make some berry scones!
About Berry Scones:
These are a simple cream scone with added raspberries and blueberries. I love that when you mix the berries into the dough, the tender raspberries get strewn about. That just means the beautiful berry flavors and colors are going to be abundant in every single bite. I get tired of eating triangular scones, so I cut mine into rounds. You can certainly make yours into triangles if you’re freaked out by circles.
You can probably spot some pretty major sugar crystals on my scones. I sprinkled them with chunky sugar. That’s totally optional. These scones are awesome right out of the oven and smeared with a little bit of REAL butter. Then they’re good later in the day as an afternoon snack dunked in tea or coffee.
They turn out to be a tender scone (believe me… I don’t like the cardboard/dry type that you buy at the coffee shops). And they freeze well- just wrap individually, freeze and defrost when you’re craving a scone. So grab some fresh berries and bake-up these summery berry scones. If it’s not warm yet where you live, crank the heat, put on your flip flops and shorts and pretend it’s already summer!
Here are a few more recipes for scones that you might like to try:
Starbucks Pumpkin Scones Chocolate Chip Toffee Scones Gingerbread Scones Ham and Cheddar Scones Cream Scones Apple Cream Scones Cape Cod Blueberry Scones Copycat Starbucks Vanilla Bean Scones
